We encourage you to spread the important message about donation with everyone you know: family, friends, employers, employees, colleagues, neighbors and so on!

Listed below are a few ways you can spread the message throughout the year.

MARCHNational Eye Donor Month

President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first NEDM in 1983 and since then a member of Congress has read a proclamation into the Congressional record each March to note this special occasion.

Make green Donate Life ribbons. Hand out during St. Patrick's Day to friends, family and colleagues

Send an email to your friends and colleagues. Remind them of your connection to cornea donation and encourage them to register as donors www.donateLIFEtexas.org

APRILNational Donate Life Month

Celebrated in April each year, NDLM features an entire month of local, regional and national activities to help encourage individuals to register as organ, eye and tissue donors on their state donor registry.

National Donor Sabbath is celebrated during the month of November. It is a time set aside for religious leaders of all denominations to talk about their faith’s support of donation.

All major religious organizations in the United States support organ, eye, and tissue donation as a compassionate gift.

Host a Donate Life awareness table at your house of worship or prayer breakfast.

Bridging Lives, Dia de los Muertos Donor families are invited to decorate a Living Legacies Altar at a arts center. The Altar is decorated with photos and mementos of cornea donors. For more information on the event, please call us.